Use of Irony, Diction, and Imagery in My Last Duchess :: Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

In his melodramatic monologue, Robert browning applys jeering, diction, and imagery to achieve a stalk effect.Robert Browning frequently wrote dramatic monologues to enhance the dark and avaricious qualities in his works. Brownings use of this particular flair is to evoke the unconstrained reaction of a person in aparticular stake or crisis (Napierkowski 170). A poem may say one thing, scarce when mixed with dramatic monologue, it may present a meaning at odds with the speakers intention(Napierkowski 170). This change may show the ratifier more than insight into the poem without directly stating the underlying facts. The reader is allowed to isolate a single moment in which the character reveals himself more starkly (Napierkowski 171). Brownings use of dramatic monologue disposes the reader to suspend moral judgement (Napierkowski 171) get hold of a haughtiness to hover over many of his works.Browning uses raillery in conjunction with dramatic monologue to produce a dre ar and domineering effect. Irony, much like dramatic monologue, can make the reader question the true underlying meaning of the passage. This brief confusion causes an ghostliness to be brought rough in the work. In My Last Duchess, verbal irony is demonstrated when the Duke says to his guests, even had you skill in speech . . . which I contain not(35-36).Throughout the poem the Duke proves that he is quite a elegant speaker(Markley172). The Duke is not a modest man, but him making this on the face of it humble statement in the midst of all his power stricken remarks establishes situational irony. Dramatic monologue can make an unforseen ironic statement pee-pee an ominous surrounding that totally encompasses the readers attention. An individual may initially lead very disturbed if an unannounced late night visitor knocked on their door, just as the Dukes unanticipated remark brought a weary ruling to the reader.Throughout My Last Duchess, Browning uses diction to further increase the haunting effect of his dramatic monologue. His precise and scattered word choice is meant to make the reader recognize the underlying haughtiness in his speech to the Counts emissary. The Duke refers to his origin wifes portraits depth and passion in order to place a cloudiness over the realism of the painting. This, along with the faint and half-flush appearance that dies along her throat, brings about an overcast appearance to the poem. The Dukes trifling lack of countenance is evident in his jealousy ofthe Duchesss kindness toward others. Her benevolence disgusts the Duke, and causes him to stoop down to spouting by commands in her direction.